Best Museums in the US: Top 25 People's favorite museums in America
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Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience
- ASIN: 1606060589
- ISBN: 1606060589
- Brand: J Paul Getty Trust Publications
- Manufacturer: J. Paul Getty Museum
At the heart of all good art museum teaching is an effort to bring people and artworks together in meaningful ways. But what constitutes an experience of a work of art? What should be taught and why? What kinds of uniquely valuable experiences are museum educators alone equipped to provide? This book—unlike any other publication currently availab... [Read More]
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The 100 Best Art Towns in America: A Guide to Galleries, Museums, Festivals, Lodging and Dining, Fourth Edition
- ASIN: 0881506419
- ISBN: 0881506419
- Manufacturer: Countryman Press
Discover creative communities, fresh air, and ideal getaways. Whether you're looking for a great place to buy a painting on a weekend road trip or an inspiring and beautiful community in which to start a new life, The 100 Best Art Towns in America puts you on the right track. New Mexico author John Villani details all you need to know―from a town... [Read More]
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Museums in a Digital Age (Leicester Readers in Museum Studies)
- ASIN: 041540262X
- ISBN: 041540262X
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Routledge
The influence of digital media on the cultural heritage sector has been pervasive and profound. Today museums are reliant on new technology to manage their collections. They collect digital as well as material things. New media is embedded within their exhibition spaces. And their activity online is as important as their physical presence on site. ... [Read More]
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Once Upon a Time . . . The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film
- ASIN: 8874397658
- ISBN: 8874397658
- Manufacturer: 5 Continents Editions
The Western is the quintessential American epic—a mythic story of nation building, triumphs, failures, and fantasies. This book accompanies the first major exhibition to examine the Western genre and its evolution from the mid-1800s in fine art, film, and popular culture, exploring gender roles, race relations, and gun violence—a story that is ... [Read More]
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The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects
- ASIN: 0143128159
- ISBN: 0143128159
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Books
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition of 101 objects from across the Smithsonian's mus... [Read More]
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Riches, Rivals and Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America
- ASIN: 1933253053
- ISBN: 1933253053
- Brand: Brand: American Association of Museums, Washington, DC
- Manufacturer: American Association of Museums, Washington, DC
Highly illustrated, exhaustively researched, and eminently readable, Riches, Rivals and Radicals describes the rise of the museums in America from the early 20th century to the early 21st—a story that parallels the historic changes in the United States. Through the decades, museums transformed themselves from cabinets of curiosity to centers of c... [Read More]
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Women Artists: The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Tiny Folio)
- ASIN: 0789210533
- ISBN: 0789210533
- Brand: Fisher Sterling Susan
- Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
This compact and impressive little survey features art by women from around the world, from the Renaissance to the present, and in all media. This handsome volume of works from the renowned collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts—the best-known museum in the world dedicated to recognizing the achievements of women artists—is a ... [Read More]
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Faberge in America
- ASIN: 0500016992
- ISBN: 0500016992
- Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
The outstanding legacy of the Russian goldsmith and jeweler Carl Faberge has captured the public's imagination for many years. During his lifetime, Faberge's exquisitely made jewelry and fantastically extravagant objets d'art brought him patronage from the world's most affluent people, including royalty - and throughout this century his work has be... [Read More]
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
- ASIN: 0375703659
- ISBN: 0375703659
- Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America. The intense relationship between the American people and their surroundings has b... [Read More]
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Symbols and Allegories in Art (A Guide to Imagery)
- UPC: 884259989602
- ASIN: 0892368187
- ISBN: 9780892368181
- Brand: J Paul Getty Museum Pubns
- Manufacturer: J. Paul Getty Museum
From antiquity, when the gods and goddesses were commonly featured in works of art, through to the twentieth century, when Surrealists drew on archetypes from the unconscious, artists have embedded symbols in their works. As with previous volumes in the Guide to Imagery series, the goal of this book is to provide contemporary readers and museum vis... [Read More]
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Can You Find It? America: Search and Discover More Than 150 Details in 20 Works of Art (Can You Find It? (Abrams Books for Young Readers))
- ASIN: 0810988909
- ISBN: 0810988909
- Brand: Abrams Books for Young Readers
- Manufacturer: Abrams Books for Young Readers
The Can You Find It? books have delighted countless children, inviting them to look more closely at works of art by searching for hidden details. Now comes a new title in the series, featuring paintings, prints, and textiles from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Each work is characteristically American, and each is filled with a wealth of details to... [Read More]
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Andrew Wyeth: America's Painter
- ASIN: 1555951376
- ISBN: 1555951376
- Manufacturer: Greenville Museum of Art
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111 Museums in New York That You Must Not Miss (111 Places in .... That You Must Not Miss)
- ASIN: 3740803797
- ISBN: 3740803797
- Manufacturer: Emons Publishers
The ultimate insider's guide to New York's museumsFeatures interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guidesPart of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 300 titles and 1.8 million copies in print worldwideAppeals to both the local market (more than 20 million people call the New York metropolitan area home) an... [Read More]
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A Laboratory for Art: Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950
- UPC: 884620157616
- ASIN: 0300154690
- ISBN: 0300154690
- Manufacturer: Harvard Art Museums
Harvard’s Fogg Museum was the first American museum with a scientifically based conservation and research department. During a period of immense growth of collections in the United States, director Edward W. Forbes and associate director Paul J. Sachs developed the Fogg into a vital training ground for a new breed of museum professionals attuned ... [Read More]
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Great Fishing Lodges of North America: Fly Fishing's Finest Destinations
- ASIN: 0847834247
- ISBN: 9780847834242
- Manufacturer: Rizzoli
This exclusive tour of North America’s most storied fishing lodges puts you on the premiere streams, rivers, lakes, and coasts with a fly rod in hand. Escape on the fishing trip of your dreams with Great Fishing Lodges of North America. From Alaska to Florida, Montana to Maine, and across Canada, this is a must-have for the fisherman who dreams o... [Read More]
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Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz
- ASIN: 0847860582
- ISBN: 0847860582
- Manufacturer: Rizzoli Electa
After decades of art collecting, prominent Washington D.C.–based activist, philanthropist, and founder of the august Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Peggy Cooper Cafritz had amassed one of the most important collections of work by artists of color in the country. But in 2009, the more than three hundred works that comprised this extraordinary ... [Read More]
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
- ASIN: 0847846598
- ISBN: 0847846598
- Manufacturer: Rizzoli Electa
In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings, and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration, scholarship, extent, and graceful packaging. As the first large survey published in 30 years, and the first large general survey o... [Read More]
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A Museum of Their Own: National Museum of Women in the Arts
- ASIN: 0789210037
- ISBN: 0789210037
- Brand: Brand: Abbeville Press
- Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
An inspiring memoir relating how Wilhelmina Cole Holladay succeeded in founding and establishing the best-known museum devoted to women in the arts. Over the centuries, until quite recently, the work of great women artists had been ignored, forgotten, or denied; they had been largely left out of museums and histories of art. Along came Wilhelmina... [Read More]
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Love and the Erotic in Art (A Guide to Imagery)
- ASIN: 1606060090
- ISBN: 1606060090
- Manufacturer: J. Paul Getty Museum
Even in the Western world, which seems completely accustomed to a widespread appearance of risqué images, an erotic painting from five hundred years ago can still manage to create a sensation. This book, the fifteenth title in the popular Guide to Imagery series, is a delightful romp through the portrayal of love and sexuality in art--age-old subj... [Read More]
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Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- ASIN: 1588345939
- ISBN: 1588345939
- Manufacturer: Smithsonian Books
This fully illustrated guide to the Smithsonian's newest museum takes visitors on a journey through the richness and diversity of African American culture and the history of a people whose struggles, aspirations, and achievements have shaped the nation. Opened in September 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture welcomes a... [Read More]
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